Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...explained lamely: "I guess every person has a little larceny in his heart." Dial Tone. In Pacific Beach, Calif., telephone repairmen uncrossed the wires leading into the home of Robert J. Schroeder after Schroeder and his neighbors complained that every time his telephone rang it set off the air raid siren across the street...
...siren was granted the city by the Federal government on the condition that it be used only for air raid alert within the five-mile Littauer area. But even if it does, fire officials quietly wish that the protests went to Washington. After all, they say, the machine belongs to the Federal government...
...strike deadline neared, there was an air of wartime emergency. Sir Winston Churchill himself ordered the country deployed as he had for the General Strike of 1926. Government department heads designated key workers who would have to sleep on the job, and beds were installed in old wartime air-raid shelters. Department chiefs were to be housed in a massive concrete annex to the Admiralty built to be the government's last stronghold in case of a Nazi invasion. Car pools were organized (the London Underground would also stop...
...Tibetan Utopia, became an international byword for any man's place of retreat from the world, including Franklin Roosevelt's wartime Maryland hideaway. (Ironically, it was also the name announced by Roosevelt as the place of origin of General Jimmy Doolittle's 1942 Tokyo raid.) Both Lost Horizon and Chips sold more than 3,000,000 copies, became movie classics. In the more than 20 novels that followed, Millionaire Novelist Hilton served up a mellow blend of worldly wisdom and well-bred British morality that delighted the book clubs, Hollywood producers and the general public, but alienated...
Civil Liberties. In Baltimore, after police had arrested 100 people in a raid on a strip joint, Magistrate William Laukaitis threw the case out of court, announced: The fact that a male applauds a female for taking off her clothes does not constitute disorderly conduct...